Why Shoot the Teacher? (1977)

Directors

Silvio Narizzano

Cast

Bud Cort, Chris Wiggins, Gary Reineke, Kenneth Griffith, Merrilyn Gann, Michael J. Reynolds, Norma West, Samantha Eggar

The story

The plot is set in 1935, during the Depression. Max Brown (Bud Cort) is an urban east-province Canadian fresh from college who travels to Western Canada to accept a teaching position at a one-room rural schoolhouse in the fictional settlement of Willowgreen, Saskatchewan, because there are no other jobs available. He decides to live in the school's basement, having to adapt to teaching in the Depression-era rural setting, especially given the bleakness of the settlement.

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